Lucio Galletto OAM (birth date undisclosed) was born into a family of farmers and restaurateurs in north-west Italy. As an architecture student, he met a visiting Australian girl; in 1975 he moved to Sydney to be with her. In 1981, they set up Lucio's, in Balmain. Two years later they moved to their current premises, Lucio’s in Paddington, in which they have established one of Australia's most-awarded Italian restaurants, as renowned for its art as for its food (in a European tradition, they have offered artists meals in exchange for their productions, and major artworks line the restaurant’s walls). Galletto’s books include The Art of Food at Lucio’s (1999) with contributions from Robert Hughes and John Olsen; Soffritto: A delicious Ligurian memoir (2007), written by David Dale; Lucio’s Ligurian Kitchen (2010) with David Dale; and The Art of Pasta (2011), with David Dale and artwork by Luke Scibberas.
